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of their customers, at a difficult time,” across the energy sector. I hope we can workforce. Technical expertise and
said Dallas. Through their extensive all embrace this challenge,” he said. safety awareness were two of the
use of technology, communication, “I see it as an enormous opportunity attributes that enabled the business
personnel and around the clock for this part of the sector to lead to grow its operations. Now, the firm’s
commitment to the community, they decarbonisation by driving innovation investments have led to safer working
went above and beyond to resolve that not only reduces our emissions but conditions, decreased disruption and
issues for over 26,000 customers. also keeps down customer bills. minimised project emissions, helping
It was then time to hear from “The Ofgem board and I know how to set new standards.
keynote speaker Jonathan Brearley, much work goes into maintaining a The final award of the day was
Chief Executive Officer at Ofgem. He world class system, but also in terms the Lifetime Achievement Award,
said: “I want to start off by saying how of innovating for the future - so it’s which recognises individuals whose
incredibly personally proud I am of the fantastic to see so much of that hard outstanding performance and sustained
industry as a whole, but particularly work recognised at these awards today,” commitment to excellence throughout
of the work that all of you have done he concluded. their careers have made a significant
within it, and never more so than the Next up was the Product of the contribution to the success of the
last year that we’ve had. I know many Year award, sponsored by Morrison organisations they work for and the
of you that have been dialing in today Energy Services. Again, two winners gas sector in general. The winner of
have gone absolutely above and beyond were selected: C55 Asset Investment this award was David Lander, of David
the call of duty.” Planning & Management, developed Lander Consulting, who has been, and
Later, he added: “We don’t say it by Copperleaf Technologies in continues to be, a key advocate of, and
enough; you are not as recognised as collaboration with Northern Gas contributor to, the gas industry.
you should be – as a big part of the Networks, National Grid Transmission “Widely recognised as independent
way that this country has gone so far and SGN; and Mechanical Purge and freethinking, David has supported
through the Covid crisis.” End Fitting, developed by Plasson in almost every aspect of gas quality in
He went on to discuss the future of collaboration with Cadent and ROSEN. some shape or form with integrity and
the industry – both immediate and The winner of the Innovation enthusiasm. As such, on behalf of the
in the long-term – and in terms of Award, sponsored by SGN, was Baxi industry we believe he richly deserves
net zero, noting that he believes that Heating for its development of a pure a lifetime achievement award,” said
meeting climate goals are equally as hydrogen boiler. Meanwhile, Danny Dallas when announcing the award.
fundamental to making sure customers O’Malley, of SGN Natural Gas, was Closing the ceremony was IGEM’s
are looked after today. recognised for his three decades of President Elect Ben Clarke, who
Jonathan spoke positively about both management and leadership when he offered his congratulations to all the
the future and current developments, was announced as the winner of the finalists, saying “we are fortunate to be
saying that there are some very exciting 2021 Leadership Award. working with such inspiring, talented,
developments in both government and The Company of the Year award was and innovative individuals and
Ofgem as a regulator, and relied on sponsored by Towngas and went to ULC organisations.”
examples such as the H100 Project in Robotics, which has collaborated with
Fife to show this. many of the other award nominees. The If you missed it, you can still view the
“All I would say as a regulator is that company’s submission demonstrated ceremony via the IGEM YouTube page by
net zero is a huge challenge for all of us its commitment to growing a diverse visiting bit.ly/GasAwards2021

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